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Ampagia femoralis (Erichson, 1842) (a species of weevil)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp. (as Ampagia femoralis) 

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Curculionoidea

Family: Curculionidae

Subfamily: Molytinae

Tribe: Cryptorhynchini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 5
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Ecology

Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii.

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